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Saturday, 27 October 2012

Another year has passed in the witch's year. Halloween is the witch's new year. Originated from the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain when people make bonfires and wear costumes to ward off roaming ghosts. Over the centuries it has become a secular event characterised by candies and costumes.

Although there's no walkabout for this little girl, we made a project to make a glamorous witch's hat.

Method:
This is probably not the best way, but it works for a one off hat.
Take the diameter of the child's head. Draw a larger one outside depending how droopy you want the hat.
Make flaps so you can just tape them to the cone later.

Cut half a circle, the radius should be how high you want the hat to be.

Tape the middle of the half circle which will be the point of the hat, this is to prevent it from ripping when you start twisting to make the cone.

Working from inside, start joining the flap to the half circle, easier to use the tape rather than the glue gun.